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Dr Julian Lewis claimed David Cameron鈥檚 former director of communications was in a 鈥渟tate of great anger鈥� after the chairman of the defence select committee claimed that spin doctors of the former PM were responsible for withholding information about last year's Trident missile test failure.

Dr Lewis said Sir Craig Oliver had contacted him to say he had no knowledge of the failed test.

The Conservative MP said Sir Craig should issue a press release, and asked: "If he didn鈥檛 know, did the prime minister know? And if the prime minister knew, why didn鈥檛 he make the matter public and why didn鈥檛 he tell even his closest spin doctors?鈥�

He was speaking to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn, and debating with Conservative MP Anne Marie Trevelyan and Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.